The Workout That Decreases Your Appetite

There’s a long-standing idea that working out hard boosts your appetite. But a study begs to differ. High intensity interval training (HIIT), the workout you’ve grown to love (and sometimes hate), might actually cause you to eat less.

A study done at the University of Western Australia, and now getting buzz outside academia and in the fitness world, found that interval training suppresses the hunger-stimulating hormone, ghrelin. It also increases levels of blood lactate and blood glucose, which squash your short-term appetite.